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Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
my iPhone 5 is cracked so bad the home button fell out. getting the iphonx experience early, thanks gravity+marble tile.

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Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
it still comes with a lovely 5w charger to add to my skullpile of useless white cubes. that alone automatically disqualifies it from a perfect score.

i don't care if they never send my an early review unit ever, someone has to make a stand for the sake of integrity.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

actionjackson posted:

Wait people in this thread are actually buying an iPhone X lmao
yes. i've ran the numbers and it should be twice as fast as my iphone 5.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Boiled Water posted:

but what can all that speed be used for?
running ios11 at an acceptable frame rate?

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

echinopsis posted:

just all ios devices in the house are on one id.. it's not necessarily clear that you shouldnt do this when you set up. regardless, am moving out and also sick of poo poo being shared between phones like imessages etc
If you own the email to the Apple ID then just change the password and secret questions and put all of the devices you won't be using in lost mode via the find my iPhone app.

easy peasy.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
they could give out only one unit to the pioneer woman cooking blog and it would make zero effect on sales.

also, they only made like 40 of them, so you can think of the people getting them on Friday as early reviewers anyway since you won't be able to go into a store and buy one til January.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
i'm just going to keep using a passcode anyway since i'm irrationally paranoid. but yeah, touch id was real good poo poo.

also the wait for the x edition is down to less than a month, so it looks they got their poo poo together pretty quick in regards to production. just in time to be a great stocking stuffer for your 6-10 year old nieces and nephews to troll your siblings who are still on something like a 2 year old moto g.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
they could in theory let them activate and then use the gps info to reveal their location, but I doubt they care that much.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
it’s smaller than my Plus with the same amount of screen real estate. exactly what I was buying it for. all the gestures, awful app and skee-ball function fine.

I’m sure when I use the camera people will just love the 95 megabyte attachments. and I’m never using face id because that’s dumb.

4/5 because of the one spec of dust under my screen protector.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I know, I know. It’s insured but that’s not good enough to avoid heat from the wife.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
lol

cryptic error message when enabling WiFi calling. anyone else getting this? my money is it’s just at&t suckin dick though.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I think you can just buy the Verizon one. i don’t think it’s really carrier locked and it’s got a gsm radio on it too.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
a couple more problems with the x to report. there’s no way to show the battery percent in the top right without swiping down, its completely impossible and the ringtone is different and wrong. fuckin owned over here.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

poty posted:

lol the x already is too big

i like to read the 9to5mac comments because im an idiot and most people are saying that the screen on the x is too small and they cant wait for next year. those people are mentally sick
The entire reason I got the x was because I loved the bigass screen on my plus, but the size was ridiculous. I agree that the x is too big in the sense that no larger phone is going to ever feel as good as the 5 or SE in my hand, but if I want a bigger screen, it’s a compromise I’m gonna have to live with.

I hope they update the SE every couple years forever. The form factor is too perfect to let it die.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I swear I had an Apple //c LCD screen that had the candy plastic aesthetic, but I can’t seem to find proof of it ever existing online. :(

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
That’s right, I’m now remembering that it was smoked transparent blue! I think it was third party though.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

pram posted:

you mean the studio display?

nah, it was really for the //c. i bought it off my old high school for a dollar, since they were gonna trash it. this was like 2001.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

pram posted:

just use your iphone that you no doubt own :confused:
this. especially if you got a plus or x, it shouldn’t have been a question that crossed your mind.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I’ve powered on my iPad like twice a year. i am looking at the ePad with the crayon seriously though because I’m an idiot.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Sagebrush posted:

i have always interpreted yospos house style as deliberate minimal effort

so if your phone automatically corrects things and adds punctuation and capitalization, proper form is to leave it as-is
i'd like to think that the #1 reason apple autocorrects its products with the correct capitalization is to protect their brand integrity in these here computer shitposting forums.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
i want the new mac pro to be designed out of pure spite. the cpu socket will fit standard off the shelf xeons but it will fry both the board and cpu if you put one in it because it's not LGA2066, no sir; it's LGA2066a and it's not keyed any differently.

same goes for the cpu fan header, psu, m.2, memory, and pci express slots, all the same pin count and connectors, all artificially electrically incompatible.

the only compatible video cards will be quadro and firepro cards that will cost a couple hundred more than the already-padded price of the regular pc ones, because gently caress you. the cheapest card will be rebadged $350 gt610.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this, but it will be firepro only because apple has a vendetta against nvidia
ah yes, bumpgate.

never forgive, never forget.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
[img]https://i.imgur.com/2NrWHXn.png][/img]

So you want a realistic down-to-earth computer that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?

Laslow fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Apr 6, 2018

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
“I’m proud to introduce the new revolutionary Mac Pro with a stylish, state of the art new form factor made with genuine ground up skeletons of holocaust victims!”

*dead silence*

“And one more thing, it has a PCI slot!”

*THERMONUCLEAR EXPLOSION OF APPLAUSE*

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

the iPhone would have died on the vine if at&t didn't acquire Cingular and forcing them to obey the contract language apple signed with them. cell phones would have sucked complete rear end if Steve didn't luck out there
cingular bought at&t. not that it makes a real difference.

i just think it’s funny that mighty telecom colossus at&t failed so massively at the transition to wireless that they needed fuckin’ cingular to save their keister.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
i got a 2015 mba for my mom so i don't have to support a $400 dell. they should have fired everyone involved in getting rid of magsafe. the sales guy joked about stocking up on 2015 mbp's while you still can, so he seemed to know what's up.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
yes with a bigass “256GB” or whatever it’s got that dwarfs the rest of the logo on the box.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
the only company that didn't get totally dicked over by ppc chips was nintendo, who at least had the sense to not clock it above 750MHz.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
it's just a regular rectangle that pretends it isn't there.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

The Management posted:

I’m seriously debating about spending a grand on a Mac mini to replace my 8 year old iMac when I’m old and rich, but when I was a broke college student I would spend 2-3 grand on computer parts every couple of years.
yeah, now that’s the real question. how the gently caress did i afford all that poo poo? i really don’t want to think about it, tbh.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

The Management posted:

I made $6000 in a summer internship and spent half of it on tuition and the other half on computers.
i hope you had a meal plan.

i never paid for soap since my parents robbed casino hotels blind of their toiletries. just raided their big ol bag.

i still have a bottle of caesars palace aftershave (called CAESARS MAN of course) from the 80’s for whenever i want to smell like leisure suit larry.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

i spent the money i made in college on booze and weed bc im not a fucken nerd
nerds got weed and booze money from bartering with their gigs and gigs of warez, movies, music and porn. and occasionally reinstalling windows for people who got computer aids from limewire.

my 1st gen pioneer DVD burner was basically a money printing machine along with xp with the fckgw key.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Last Chance posted:

apfs works fine on fusion drives, dunno where that came from
I think when APFS first rolled out, you could only use it on flash storage and OSX would still use HFSJ on magnetic storage, which people took as some kind of implication of something.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Fabricated posted:

Baseline Precision desktops start at around $1000ish with "why not just buy an optiplex" hardware

But we're contracted so our pricing structure is different
baseline precisions use the non-HEDT C chipset and Xeon-E(and even Core i in some)series which aren’t directly analogous

but I think you kind of covered it with the “why not buy an optiplex” qualifier there

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
the mighty mouse was pretty tight with the xy axis scroll ball for browsing the web at 1024x768.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
so they saw how microsoft was so successful with making everyone a beta tester for their cheap nagware unwillingly, so they one-upped them by doing the same thing but with expensive hardware.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
if they do introduce a new desktop mac, it’s not going to have any expansion capability, at least in any practical sense of the term.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

SRQ posted:

no it was just adding ios parts until like... 10.10 I'd say it started getting dumb. Adding iMessage was fantastic and half the reason I like MacOS so much.
10.9 was beautiful.
no he’s right, it all started with natural scroll.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Fiedler posted:

there are qualcomm snapdragon windows laptops available for purchase right now today. they've announced a development pipeline of faster snapdragon chips for windows laptops in the coming years.
they have the 8cx coming out which would fit the description but in the meantime oem’s keep pumping out snapdragon 835/845 based garbage.

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Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
or they could earmark the corners for time and signal/battery only and bump the content down 40 or so pixels to compensate.

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